Biology Quote by George Santayana

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply…

— Pema Chodron

“The Fire Bug flared up at that. “You want to know what bugs me?” it said indignantly. “Nobodaddy’s friendly about fire. Oh, it’s fine…

— Salman Rushdie

“Life is precarious and improbable, a flame in matter, easily snuffed out. Nature shows no regard for the individual spark, in this creature or…

— Scott Russell Sanders

“What is fire? It’s a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don’t really know. Its real beauty is that…

— Ray Bradbury

“Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little…

— Alan Bradley

“... humans are simply zombie hosts obediently disseminating their seeds, tubers, sparks, and gasses around the globe. In the end, the geologic record will…

— John Vaillant

“It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.”

— B.V. Lawson

“I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it…

— Herman Melville

“where painfully and with wonder at having survived even this far we are learning to make fire”

— Margaret Atwood

The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts,…

— William Dean Howells